Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of gentlemen of the press stood in the steel corridor of a trans-atlantic liner and collogued together in low tones. They had come to interview George Gershwin, ringmaster of fascinating ryhthms, who, last week, was commissioned to write a jazz composition for the New York Symphony Society. Critic-composer Deems Taylor had also agreed, at the Society's behest, to compose an orchestral work for its program next season; the august Director, Dr. Walter Damrosch himself, had announced that he would conduct the Society's famed orchestra at the presentation of Gershwin's, of Taylor's, compositions. Inevitably...
...public as Irving Berlin. For the last ten years, he has written a national anthem a year. His prodigality has never been approached and he has written at least three songs?Alexander's Ragtime Band, Everybody Step, Pack Up Your Sins? which "no Broadway composer has ever surpassed," says Critic Carl Van Vechten. Berlin, a pioneer in ragtime, was perhaps the first white man who noticeably impressed his talent upon the music of the Negro?the first to score dark jungle jingles, canniballets, revivalisteria for the Anglo-Saxophone...
...Alexander Woollcott, famed dramatic critic, has written his biography...
William Stanley Braithwaite, poet, literary critic and editor, for distinguished achievement in literature...
...diplomatic service won, last week, another victory: the President decided to appoint John Van Antwerp MacMurray to be Minister to China.* Chinese bands, long silent, are beginning to play the tunes of nationalism; the new minister must have a delicate ear, must be a sympathetic critic. Two tunes, in particular, are rising to a crescendo of protest against "foreign domination...